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In our area, the two large teaching hospitals ( Shands and NFRH ) have each established a number of outlying facilities that are legally categorized as 'Free Standing Emergency Departments'. They are essentially, the emergency department of a large hospital, without the ability to handle inpatient care. They perform two services: Treat & Release and Stabilize & Transport. Generally, they can handle cases up to, but not including, serious trauma. Treat & Release provides the services that would typically be outpatient (broken arm or leg, minor cuts, etc). Stabilize & Transport is for more serious injuries, that require inpatient admission at the large central hospital. These facilities are not hospitals in their own right, but are satellite appendages to a hospital that may be many km in distance. One example, the one I would like to update, is node 4005121921. A similar facility is at node 6431819983 (which did not have a node, but I had to add for a reference). There are 3 or 4 other FSED in the greater Gainesville area. |
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It's only 1 data point, not really an established practice, but I've tagged quite a few of these as (and also I guess there is an argument to be made for a more specific tag or maybe I am going to accept this as Answered, but I wish there were a better tag for a FSED facility.
(27 Apr '19, 12:37)
NitaRae
There's a couple ways to improve the situation. You could use the Another option along those lines would be to use You could post about it on the wiki or tagging mailing lists and see what people have to say. Maybe the broader community likes the idea of a specific top level tag.
(28 Apr '19, 01:27)
maxerickson
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